. A new aerospace rm is one of many small businesses working with General Electric.. helping the U.s. get to the moon. The man in the foreground is Ben Sallard. Behind him on the left, is Brinkley Blackwell. The third man is Matt Allen. They run a small business called Progress Aerospace Enterpnses. Ben is the General Manager. Brinkley is the electronics expert. Matt is the financial expert. And PAE is the first black-owned aerospace firm in the country. Right now, PAE is turning out complex electronic components in Philadelphia for the Air Force, for General Electric and for Proiect Apollo. With nearly $3 million in contracts, PAE is growing fast. A black leader, the Reverend Leon Sullivan, had the idea of starting an aerospace firm. He says, "When the first man lands on the moon, we want him to have something with him that we have made." Black capital and initiative are making his words come true. What was General Electric's role? GE people provided technical t managerial and financial advice. PAE isn't the first small business to win business from General Electric. In fact most of GE's 50,000 suppliers are small. But it's not their size that counts. It's their ability to meet the highest standards That's all that counts when you want to make progress. Progress is our most important product GENERAL. ELECTRIC